A video made in 1993 about Lean improvements led by Sid Joynson.

Taking on an A3 can be daunting, and Eric Ethington is here to remind you that this is normal but preventable. He has five great steps for you that will make the process easier from the start to the first draft of your A3.

Many solutions proposed to improve operational performance are aimed at the manufacturing sector. The specific constraints of food and agribusiness companies are too often overlooked. In this webinar, Philip Marris shares his perspective on how to adapt traditional operational excellence to this sector.

There is so much information on Demand Driven Materials Requirements Planning (DDMRP) out there in the public domain, it is difficult for somebody to know where to start their research.
So, I have created a document to assist you to take the first steps on your Demand Driven journey.
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If you work in manufacturing, sooner or later you will find someone who claims that lean manufacturing is all about Zero Defects. Or Zero Inventory. Or Zero Lead Time. Or Zero Whatever. This is bollocks! Zero Defects was a management fad from the 1960s that pops up regularly every now and then again. In this post we will look at what Zeros there really are in lean manufacturing – if any.

Operational excellence in the agri-food industry. A lot of the solutions proposed to improve operational excellence are aimed at the manufacturing industry. The specific constraints of the food industry are too often ignored. Philip Marris presents how to adapt classical Operational Excellence to this industry, perspective supported by numerous missions in this industry over the past 20 years. ... 

This is about the motivation for the chart and its math. We shouldn’t ask manufacturing professionals to apply a technical tool without explaining its purpose and its theory.

However, without doing either, the SPC literature promotes the use of the chart to detect changes in the fluctuations of measured variables, along with charts for changes in their means. The books provide recipes for using these charts, but no explanation.

To use in-process measurements for quality control 100 years ago, Walter Shewhart proposed the Xˉ−σXˉ−σ charts. It entailed arranging workpieces in rational subgroups, summarizing measurements by subgroup into means and standard deviations, charting both, and checking new values against control limits.
When Harold Dodge tried to implement the Xˉ−σXˉ−σ charts at Western Electric, the engineers balked at calculating sample standard deviations with paper, pencils, and slide rules. To gain acceptance, Dodge let them use sample ranges and plot them in RR charts instead. While easier to understand and to use daily, sample ranges are mathematically more complex and more sensitive to extreme values than standard deviations. ...

Charts you share with others need a bodyguard of text to be self-explanatory, to avert misunderstandings, and to support learning. None of this matters when you chart exclusively for your own use, but it is obligatory when communicating with a team or making a case to management.

Generating an informative, actionable chart can take hours; documenting and labeling it should take minutes, yet we encounter charts with missing or unclear labels in business documents, published articles, and even textbooks.

The "2 for 1" rule to reduce Work In Progress and accelerate flow. A webinar hosted by Philip Marris, the founder and CEO of Marris Consulting. [...] The "2 for 1" rule is very simple: a new unit (such as a production order, an order, or a project) can only be launched into the system if two units have been previously released (finished).

Stop starting and start finishing!

The emphasis is on completing activities already underway before starting new work.  [...]  

About the speaker: Philip Marris
Philip started his Lean and Theory Of Constraints journey in 1984. He worked with Eliyahu Goldratt, the founder of TOC and author of the worldwide bestseller “The Goal”. He is also a recognized Lean expert and combines Lean (Manufacturing/Engineering/Management) with TOC.  ...